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    Articles tagged with: exhibitions

    Latest articles

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    Thu 21 Jun 2018
    Daryl Karp

    The Director’s pick: Finders Keepers Collectors and their Stories

    MoAD Director Daryl Karp picks five objects from our exhibition and tells us why these are her favourites.

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    Mon 4 Jun 2018
    Monica Glasgow

    Welcome to Australia

    New citizens are welcomed with heart-felt messages from our visitors. 

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    Tue 13 Feb 2018
    Stephanie Pfennigwerth

    Sending Sorry to the Old People

    On this day ten years ago, Ngambri Elder Matilda House witnessed Kevin Rudd’s Apology to the Stolen Generations. She carried a message from a friend.

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    Shells

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    Thu 25 May 2017
    Libby Stewart

    Yes: the Ongoing Story of the 1967 Referendum

    This week there’s a major anniversary in Indigenous history that not enough Australians know about. The Museum of Australian Democracy is recognising this anniversary in a new exhibition – Yes: the ongoing story of the 1967 Referendum – and asks prominent Australians how they feel about the referendum today.

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    Tue 16 May 2017
    Stephanie Pfennigwerth

    A Horse’s Tale: Bill, Bertie and Bairnsdale 303

    Horses were a vital part of the Parliament House opening ceremonies. What did they make of all the fuss? Three photographs of Bill, the horse ridden in Canberra by the Duke of York, provide a fresh insight into the day’s events.

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    Duke perching

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    Tue 9 May 2017
    Stephanie Pfennigwerth

    The Thieving Diva: Behind the scenes of the opening ceremony at Parliament House

    Hilda Abbott was a distinguished guest whose recollections reveal that behind the public performance, VIPs are only people after all.

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    Dame nellie opening ceremony

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    Tue 2 May 2017
    Stephanie Pfennigwerth

    Flags, snags and bags: Putting the finishing touches on the opening of Parliament House

    It took determination, ingenuity and a small piece of string to get Parliament House finished in time for its grand opening in 1927.

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    King george v statue

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    Thu 23 Feb 2017
    Stephanie Pfennigwerth

    Charley’s Choice: The breastplate of Charley, King of Burran

    An object now in display in our Designing Democracy gallery documents one man’s life-or-death decision on Australia’s pastoral frontier.

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    Thu 8 Dec 2016
    Stephanie Pfennigwerth

    A Present from the Past: Sir Robert Menzies and the Fishes Royal

    In 1965 Queen Elizabeth gave Sir Robert Menzies a gift so special that he had to contemplate burying it on a beach. What was it?

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    Wed 13 Jul 2016
    Jane Harris

    Jane Harris and the anti-apartheid movement

    Jane Harris tells the story of her involvement in the anti-apartheid movement and her late brother John, a member of the African Resistance Movement (ARM) during the 1960s.

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    Fri 22 Apr 2016

    Memories of the Struggle exhibition

    The museum’s latest exhibition, Memories of the Struggle: Australians against Apartheid, opens to the public next Wednesday 27 April when it is launched by former prime minister, Bob Hawke.

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    Fri 4 Dec 2015
    Karen Middleton

    Launching Behind the Lines exhibition 2015

    As the curtain-raiser to the 2015 Behind the Lines exhibition at the Museum of Australian Democracy, Old Parliament House, three accomplished political cartooning practitioners explained how they decide who and what to draw, and what to avoid.

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    Behind the lines 2015 launch

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    Wed 10 Jun 2015
    Dr Barry York

    Magna Carta turns 800

    In 1952, the Australian Government made a great addition to the nation’s library collection when it acquired an issue of Magna Carta that dated back to 1297.

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    Mon 11 May 2015
    Jane Reynolds

    The early life of Henry Parkes

    Henry Parkes is known as Australia’s ‘Father of Federation’ as one of the leading figures in our progress to nationhood that was achieved in 1901.

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    Fri 31 Oct 2014
    Campbell Rhodes

    Crisis 1914: a manufactured crisis

    With the fabrication finalised, and all the objects chosen and ready to go, it was time for the last task: installation.

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    Mon 20 Oct 2014
    Campbell Rhodes

    Crisis 1914: designing a crisis

    In the second of a series of ‘behind the scenes’ blog posts, Campbell Rhodes shares some of the experiences and challenges of putting this exhibition together.

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    Fri 10 Oct 2014
    Campbell Rhodes

    Crisis 1914: how a crisis was born

    In the first of a series of behind the scenes blog posts, Curatorial officer Campbell Rhodes shares some of the experiences and challenges of putting this exhibition together.

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    Fri 5 Sep 2014
    Stephanie Pfennigwerth

    Credit, debit and loss: the banking records of Harold Holt

    You can tell a lot about someone from what they buy. Our Prime Ministers of Australia gallery now has on display a selection of Harold Holt’s bank records, kindly lent to us by the National Archives of Australia.

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    Thu 14 Aug 2014
    Campbell Rhodes

    Crisis 1914: the call to arms

    On 28 June 1914, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was shot and killed by a Serbian radical in Sarajevo, setting off a chain of events that plunged the world into what was the bloodiest war in recorded history.

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    Wed 4 Jun 2014
    Kate Armstrong

    Preparing for the Queen’s Visit. Lesson 1 – How to curtsey while the Queen is laughing

    Be Prepared. That was probably the motto of the entire population of provisional Parliament House during the countdown to the Queen’s arrival on 15 February 1954.

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